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Johanna Joyce, Ludwig member, co-signs a position paper on the challenges the scientific community faces in the fight against primary brain tumours On the initiative of Cancer Research UK, an international panel of brain cancer researchers and clinicians assessed the most important challenges ahead in the development of effective treatmens for patients.

Although it is widely accepted that governance rules play a major role in the smooth running of businesses and contribute to market equilibrium, how can we measure businesses' degree of responsibility in this area?

Where does Switzerland as a start-up location stand in international comparison? How has it developed? What are the strengths and weaknesses' Now, we have data-based answers to these questions.

In a new study published in Science a team led by Prof. Petr Broz from the Department of Biochemistry identify a new mechanism to control immune cell death associated with inflammatory diseases, including sepsis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and arthritis.

Parution d'un numéro spécial de la revue Comparative European Politics consacré aux partis régionalistes populistes et édité par Reinhard Heinisch (Universität Salzburg), Emanuele Massetti (University of Surrey) et Oscar Mazzoleni (Université de Lausanne).

Subsides d'encouragement de projets de recherche FNS: 26 projets UNIL-CHUV acceptés Lors de la dernière session de printemps 2018, 26 projets de recherche UNIL-CHUV ont été financés par le FNS.

Prof. Luc Tappy, Department of Physiology Fructose is a physiological nutrient which, when consumed in excess, may have adverse metabolic effects, mainly in the liver (hepatic insulin resistance and fat storage).

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Insights from research at HEC Lausanne-UNIL - While respect for privacy is increasingly undermined on the web by publishing and sharing personal data, the solution for web actors developed by Prof&pe

3 articles of UnilaPS are proposed in this collection of the International Review of Social Psychology With its first volume published in 1988, the International Review of Social Psychology (IRSP) is 30 years old this year (1988-2018). In this special occasion, they investigated the history of the journal in order to retrace its origin and evolution.